Re: history damage in linux.git

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Apr 21, 2016, 12:51 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqy487unum.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20160421123251.GA3186@aepfle.de>

Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> writes:

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> On Thu, Apr 21, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> My guess is that this commit has been sitting for a long time in a
>> repo outside Linus' linux.git, and got merged only recently.
>
> Thats what it looks like. And thats what I'm complaining about. But in
> fact that file is there since v3.13-rc7 (if the tag is really correct in
> my patch file), since at least end of 2014.

Ah, indeed. It was merged right before 3.13. See "git tag --contains aed06b9cfcab".

It's indeed weird that "git describe --contains" gives a named based on tag v4.6-rc1, but it is not really incorrect since tags/v4.6-rc1~9^2~792 is indeed a correct name for aed06b9cfcabf8644ac5f6f108c0b3d01522f88b, and actually uses a tag that follows it.

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Matthieu Moy
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